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Mandingo, n. and a.|mænˈdɪŋgəʊ|
Also Manding, Mundingo.
A. n.
a. A large group of Negro peoples of the upper Niger in West Africa; a member of these peoples.
b. The language or languages of these peoples.
B. adj. Of or pertaining to these peoples.
1623R. Jobson Golden Trade 27, I take my beginning from the mouth of the River, whereat our first entrance, we find the Black men called Mandingos. 1757[see Ibo n. 1 a]. 1798Proc. Afr. Assoc. 4 The inhabitants are chiefly Mandingoes, and seem to be a well disposed and peaceable race. Ibid. 9 Of the other wild animals in the Mandingo countries, the most common are the hyæna, the panther, and the elephant. Ibid. 13 By the Niger, is here undoubtedly meant, the river of Senegal; which in the Mandingo language is called Bafing, or the Black river. 1888L. A. Smith Music of Waters 329 Another very rhythmical air is the following Mandingo one. 1925P. Radin tr. Vendryes' Lang. 11. ii. 112 A West African language, Mandingo, distinguishes a fa ‘his father’, from a-ta kursi ‘his breeches’. 1930C. G. Seligman Races Afr. iii. 60 The typical Mandingo are described as tall and slender in build. 1936G. Greene Journey without Maps 11. i. 99 Some Mandingo traders whom he caught smuggling goods over the border from French territory. 1948Caribbean Q. I. i 11 Of these 101 were Mandingoes from Senegambia and the upper Niger. 1969Times 19 July 9/5 Many of these slaves were..conversant with the two main languages of Senegambia: Wolof and Mandingo. 1972Times 29 June 16/2 The term ‘Manding’ embraces a number of West African peoples who speak related forms of the same language and share a similar culture. The Manding language, in a variety of dialects.., is spoken by some 10 million people. Ibid. 16/5 The pious Manding who made a famous pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324. Ibid., The Manding have always been natural travellers.
Add:[A.] [b.] The form Manding is freq. used spec. to denote (a) the Malinke language, (b) a group of closely related and mutually intelligible Mande languages including Malinke. (Further examples.)
1952Westermann & Bryan Lang. W. Afr. ii. 31 The name Mande or Mandingo is a general term applied by Europeans and others to all the tribes speaking Mande languages. The name (other versions of which are Mandi, Male, Mali, Mele.., Manding) is properly applied only to the people commonly known as Malinke and to their speech. 1969Morgan & Pugh W. Afr. i. i. 24 The Senoufo are a Voltaic community who have adopted many Manding and Akan customs. They live well to the south, in sub-Sudanic and sub-Guinean environments. 1983I. F. Hancock in I. R. Dihoff Current Approaches to Afr. Linguistics I. xv. 249 Ethnic groups speaking dialects of the Manding language in Sierra Leone include the Bambara, Dyula, Kuranko, Mandinka, Maninka and Manyaka. By far the most widely represented of these is the Maninka, usually referred to as Mandinka or Mandingo in reference to Sierra Leone. |